Authentic Leadership Quotes

Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts. ~ Henna Inam

When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability to produce a breakthrough in your leadership and team. Everything starts with your self-awareness. You cannot take charge without taking accountability, and you cannot take accountability without understanding how you avoid it. ~ Loretta Malandro

Most of us want to be authentic. Yet, we are not who we think we are. We are made up of a rich array of facets and possibilities, many of which we ignore because we label them as "bad". We create a cardboard cutout image of ourselves to look good to others. The discord between who we are and the image we have to live up to slowly kills our aliveness. When we suppress parts of ourselves, it lowers our mojo, sense of fulfillment, leadership effectiveness and impact in the workplace. ~ Henna Inam

Authentic leadership is the full expression of "me" for the benefit of "we". ~ Henna Inam

Find your own authentic leadership style; your own unique way of listening to, helping and engaging with your front line. Challenge the often formidable psychological distance between basement and boardroom. Your people will thank you, and so will your customers. ~ Chris Van Gorder

don't believe to your eyes believe to your actions ~ Alessandro Malaguti

Courage is taking calculated risks and facing intimidation in the eye. It is one of the most attractive things a person in power will have. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophies for Timeless Thoughts ~ Kailin Gow

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. ~ Tom Peters

Be sensitive to your conscience. True success flows from the inside-out. The fact that something is popular doesn't make it right. ~ Dele Ayo Bankole

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess. ~ John C. Maxwell

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush. ~ Mike Huckabee

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me. ~ Brian Tracy

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. ~ Albert Camus

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding ~ Herb Kelleher

A lion does not take orders from sheep. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today. ~ Paul Gibbons

All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths. ~ Jonathan Darman

As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower. ~ Farshad Asl

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth. ~ John C. Maxwell

The Practising Manager's Growth Mantra

-Growth in an enterprise is created through remarkable achievements, not incremental achievements like efficiency or effectiveness.

-Remarkable achievements are possible only in complexity.

-Only volitional engagement can work in complexity. Luckily, there is no certainty in complexity. Hence, motivational engagement cannot work.

-People who make choices based on the purpose can only be volitionally engaged - they are the growth managers, the leaders. ~ Amit Chatterjee

I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides ~ Frank Herbert

I tell you a throne is a greater imposition than it is a gift. ~ Julie C. Dao

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead. ~ Omar N. Bradley

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages," they wrote. "Some of these investments will pay off, others will not, and we will have learned another valuable lesson in either case. ~ Anonymous

Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I'm standing. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No. ~ Vernon Jordan

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion. ~ S. E. Entsua-Mensah

I am grateful for the support of those who want to see more women in Congress to better represent our country and provide leadership and solutions to DC. Ron Barber has been asleep at the switch on issues that are extremely important to Southern Arizona, such as fighting for the A-10 and Davis-Monthan. That is why Nancy Pelosi is stepping in to try to save his job in November. Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman that is why I fully intend on replacing Congressman Barber on Election Day. ~ Martha McSally

Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does. ~ Orrin Woodward

Too often pastors address problems from within the flawed assumptions of their culture and training. Unable to see how problems are forming, and how their leadership is often a cause, church leaders employ legalistic or democratic remedies to issues that require Spirit-directed discernment, repentance, and forgiveness. Meanwhile, leaders have to deal with members who, as noted above, insist on rights and want to "vote" instead of submit. ~ Jim Van Yperen

Recognizing and accepting both the responsibilities and the opportunities leadership offers you is a significant step in your development as a leader. ~ Kevin Eikenberry

A good leader lays seeds to grow trees of peace. A bad leader lays down bricks to build walls of ignorance. Always choose the peacemaker, not the divider. The one who unites and strengthens a country, not divides and cripples it. A leader that will build bridges, not walls. ~ Suzy Kassem